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Adobe Flash CS3: ActionScript

ActionScript is the driving force behind Flash CS3. This class is designed for the intermediate level Flash designers that would like to create powerful, compelling, and highly interactive digital content for the web with Flash and ActionScript. In this two day course the students will discover the fundamentals of the ActionScript development language.
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Duration: 2 Days

Course Price: £395

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Who Should Attend  

This course is for Flash designers who have some experience with ActionScript but want to learn more advanced topics and features of animation and design in Adobe Flash Professional.

Prerequisites 

Because of the amount of material we cover in class, we do require students to be comfortable with using Adove Flash. We recommend you first take our Introduction to Adobe Flash and Adobe Flash Intermediate course or have equivalent experience or knowledge.

Performance-Based objective  

Course Outline

Introducing ActionScript 2.0
• New features of ActionScript 2.0
• ActionScript Elements
• The ActionScript Editor

Using Event Handlers In ActionScript
• Mouse Events
• Frame Events
• Clip Events
• Event Handler Methods

Target Paths in ActionScript
• Understanding Multiple Timelines
• Targeting the Current Movie
• Targeting the Main Movie
• Targeting a Parent Movie
• Targeting Movie Clip Instances
• Working with Levels

Controlling Information Flow
• Using variables and expressions
• Loading external variables
• Storing and sharing information
• Modifying variables
• Conditional statements
• Looping statements

Controlling Text
• Input text
• Dynamic text
• Text field options
• Displaying HTML
• Generating text fields dynamically
• Selection class
• The string class

Manipulating information
• Calculating math class
• Calculating angles with maths class
• Calculating distance with math class
• Generating random numbers
• Ordering information with arrays
• Using date and time

Managing content
• Sharing Library symbols
• Using components
• Using behaviours
• Including external ActionScript
• Listing variables and objects
• Debugging

Course Times
Class time is 10:00 a.m.- 4:30/5:00 p.m. Breaks are scheduled throughout the day and lunch is typically scheduled between 1-2 pm. We provide you with Tea, Coffee, Biscuits and other refreshments on the house. We also have a fridge and a microwave available for you to store/warm up any food you wish to bring along for your lunch.

Related Courses

We recommend the following courses that relate to this class:Adobe Flash Intermediate , Adobe Dreamweaver introduction, and Adobe Photoshop Introduction

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